[Gd-hackers] Proposing several wiki instances for the community's webpresence

[Peter Robisch]

Good morning, Open Dylan Community,

   In my last email I stated that I currently use the current wiki 
instance to prepare the content a new Dylan book only. I presented 
in that email also a short content outline for such a book. 
   Several reader might have a belly or a head ache with this. So let me 
introduce you to the big picture I have in mind. 

  As the title of this email states I'm proposing here several wiki
instances for the community's webpresence. I especially see two additional
instances:

   *  dylan-annotated.opendylan.org
   *  dylan-reference-request.opendylan.org

IMHO:
    As soon as the wiki is based on the parser system Monday 
    it is time to start these instances.

==   dylan-annotated.opendylan.org ==

*  I first thought drm-annotated is the name for this instance, but 
   now I think it is better to use this more general name:
       dylan-annotated

*  The content of the dylan-annotated instance is outlined in a way 
   that it is mostly in parallel to the chapters of the DRM 
   (Dylan Reference Manual)
   
    **   There is already a collection of possible content 
         which is outline in that way.
         This collection is based on messages which were send 
         to comp.lang.dylan. 
         Currently this stuff is viewable under the link:

http://www.fun-principles.info/slot/site/dylan/alpha/dylantalks/contents.htm


*  How the wiki instance dylan-annotated will be integrated 
   to the webpresence of the DRM is an open point. 
   
    Here is my first tought:

    In wikipedia each page has a tab *article* and a tab *discussion* 
    (and several others)
     **    Maybe we can design the DRM webpresence in a way that it also 
           has tabs.
           
     For example then each chapter offers a tab that presents the content 
     of the related chapter (or section) of the dylan-annotated wiki 
     instance.

== dylan-reference-request.opendylan.org ==

   The Java community has Java Specification Requests (JSR).
The analog for our community would be
   
       Dylan Reference Request (DRR)

The wiki instance dylan-reference-request.opendylan.org (may be there is
also the short url drr.opendylan.org ) would be the place for proposals. 

For example it content could state a link to
* a first implementation
* a discussion page for each proposal
* to a list of pre-proposal 

You might have further ideas.

== General note ==

  I expect that the webinterface of these wiki instances will be different.

For example: 

*  the dylan-reference-request instance might have a interface which 
   allows easily to recognize which state a proposal has related to 
   the Dylan Community Procedures.
   
   Oh, may be we have another wiki instance: dylan-community-procedure.

== complimentary close ==

If anyone has time which he likes to contribute as coding time to the
community, let me state my preferences.

I would appreciate work on this projects

*    integrating the Monday parser to the wiki.
**    This is a prerequest to what I stated here

*     adapting the Literate Programming to Open Dylan 
      (currently Gwydion Dylan only)
**    This is a prerequest to refactor the I.D.E 
      which I think is necessary (see last email)

For those how like to inform about Monday and Literate Programming,  
see:
     http://wiki.opendylan.org/wiki/view.dsp?title=Monday%20Project 


Enjoy your day and enjoy our community,


   pet-ro

   ( Peter Robisch )